Rescue workers operate at the site where more than a dozen people were stabbed on a street in Kawasaki, Japan. Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters

2 people feared dead, another 17 were injured in Japan mass stabbing

A mass stabbing has happened on Tuesday morning on a street near a park in Noborito, Kawasaki city. At least 17 people were injured, including thirteen schoolgirls from a private Catholic school who were waiting for the school bus. 

The police put the injury toll at 15, while firefighters said at least 19 people had been injured. 
Dai Nagase, a spokesman from the fire department said that a man stabbed them. The fire department received an emergency call at 7.44am, reporting that four elementary schoolchildren were stabbed. Furthermore, the police said that the suspected man had been detained. He had stabbed himself and suffering serious wounds

According to a man near the crime scene, he saw a man and elementary schoolchildren lying on the ground, bleeding. It is scary to see this kind of thing happen since the neighborhood was a quiet neighborhood.

Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the developed world and that includes violent crime or mass attack.
However, in 2018, a man was arrested for stabbing one person to death in central Japan. Another case was in 2016, a man stabbed 19 people to death in a disability center in the south of Tokyo.